Edmodo is a new and powerful online service for educators to communicate with students, conduct virtual classes, and collaborate with each other.
Often, a teacher has trouble integrating web collaboration technology with their traditional classrooms. This unit gives a brief primer of how Edmodo can be used by a secondary education teacher. Learning some basic features will enable to teacher to immediately use the online service in his or her class.
Introduction to the unit This unit consists of four lessons, each one focused on one of the basic features available to Edmodo users. The lessons will take the learner from initial account provisioning to connecting with students and parents, and they conclude by demonstrating the communication and collaboration tools available to the learner.
Learning Objectives This unit's goal is to give a secondary education teacher a basic proficiency with Edmodo's service offering.
The learner will be able to create his or her own account using Edmodo.
The learner will be able to have students create an Edmodo account and link it to his or her instructor account using the groups feature of the program.
The learner will be able to give parents directions to access Edmodo either by directly logging in through the student account or creating his or her own account that is linked to a student account.
The learner will be able to communicate to students through Edmodo by posting messages in Edmodo.
Structure of this guide This guide contains the following training material:
Background and goals
Edmodo is a new and powerful online service for educators to communicate with students, conduct virtual classes, and collaborate with each other.Often, a teacher has trouble integrating web collaboration technology with their traditional classrooms. This unit gives a brief primer of how Edmodo can be used by a secondary education teacher. Learning some basic features will enable to teacher to immediately use the online service in his or her class.
Introduction to the unit
This unit consists of four lessons, each one focused on one of the basic features available to Edmodo users. The lessons will take the learner from initial account provisioning to connecting with students and parents, and they conclude by demonstrating the communication and collaboration tools available to the learner.
Learning Objectives
This unit's goal is to give a secondary education teacher a basic proficiency with Edmodo's service offering.
Structure of this guide
This guide contains the following training material: